Stop "auto: true" if only one slide

[mactedder]

I have seen numerous comments about this issue, but is there an official fix for this yet? I am do not write Jquery so would need it in plain english.

Basically I need my slideshow to not 'auto' animate if there is only one slide. Currently my slideshow has a fade animation which looks odd when there is only one item in the slideshow.

I am surprised this isn't accounted for in the default code?

[nightgrey]

If your bxSlider() call looks like this:

$('#slider').bxSlider({
  auto: true
});

you could workaround it like this:

$('#slider').bxSlider({
  auto: ($('#slider').children().length < 2) ? false : true
});

Of course this check had to be in the plugin, but it seems it isn't maintained anymore.

[fedeartica]

Hi, I have the same issue, I've tried the fix posted by nightowl8: it works when you have only one slide, but if you have 2 or more slides only the first one is visible and the slideshow doesn't work anymore.
Any suggestion please?

[fedeartica]

nobody? :-(

[nightgrey]

Hello @fedeartica,
I could have a look if you show your code. You can create a fiddle/pen at http://jsfiddle.net/ or http://codepen.io/.

As this plugin seems to be dead (at least from the maintainer side) I'd suggest using an other slider which is maintained actively. You won't get much support here. I switched to OwlCarousel 2 (which can be used as a carousel or a regular slider), for example, but there are other great sliders out there, it depends heavily on your needs.

[fedeartica]

Hi,
thanks for your answer.
I've used exactly the same code posted by @NightOwl8

$('#slider').bxSlider({
auto: ($('#slider').children().length < 2) ? false : true
});

It works, but if you insert a second slide the slider shows always one dot.

[Tidal-Wave]

Related to #712, closing due to duplication of issue and housekeeping. Will address in next update.

As a note: the code presented here doesn't work for 2 slides because you are testing for length < 2 instead of length <= 2.